Elections Follow

Elections for the national executive committee of the NUT teachers’ union are due to end this week.

The first round of the French regional elections last Sunday saw a heavy defeat for the ruling right wing party of Nicolas Sarkozy.

The UCU Left has made some gains in recent elections for the union’s national executive committee.

Local election results in the Netherlands are a serious warning to the left.

Election results for the national executive committee and national officers of the UCU lecturers’ union are due on Wednesday. But elections for higher education members for London and the East continue until 17 March. Socialist Worker is backing UCU Left candidates Mark Campbell, Jane Hardy and Jim Wolfreys in this section.

Elections for national officers of the lecturers’ UCU union and its national executive committee (NEC) will end on Friday of this week.

Supporters of Unison’s present leadership used union resources to boost the chances of their candidates in national executive elections.

Elections are coming up for the national executive committee of the NUT teachers’ union.

Should socialists vote for the Labour Party? I teach in a primary school in London. At work people are aware of the despicable things Labour has done to our lives and education. During the London mayor elections in 2008 most teachers in my school voted Green or abstained. But things have changed. Teachers are talking about how scared they are of a Tory government – they started Sats, league tables and Ofsted. David Cameron has become the staffroom’s hate figure.

The battle for the general secretary of the 1.3 million- strong Unison union is on.

Dave Prentis, the Unison union general secretary, has called an election to "renew his mandate".

Elections are coming up for the national executive committee of the UCU lecturers’ union. They come at a time when we are facing the biggest onslaught on post-16 education in decades.